If the fiscally conservative Republican from Wesley Chapel, Florida is thinking of running for another public office after being Speaker of the House, his recent decision to halt the Sun Life Stadium upgrade legislation may come back to bite him.

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After retiring from racing, he became a trainer at Lambourn, but his racing life came to an abrupt halt in October 1992, when the Jockey Club warned him off (banned him) for 10 years.

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She said she wanted to halt treatment and spend the rest of her life at home.

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That year's RAC cross-country motor rally was cancelled, and social life in infected areas ground to a halt.

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The letters to his mother about life in the Royal Navy came to an abrupt halt with a telegram of his death on the HMS Royal Oak, torpedoed in Scapa Flow by the German submarine U-47 in October 1939.

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With luck, life may now improve for this particular group of the halt and the lame.

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Under the Ghandi style leadership of an extraordinary woman the people who live on the banks of the Narmada river in India have managed to halt the construction of a dam that threatens to destroy their way of life.

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The killing of one suspected Boston Marathon bomber and the manhunt for another brought life in large swaths of the notoriously gridlocked Beantown to a screeching halt, leaving residents and tourists alike frustrated and angry.

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